24-12-2022, 10:33 AM
I've just finished The Women in Black, Madeleine St John. It's set in Sydney in the 1950s, essentially a love letter to old fashioned department stores (David Jones etc), and so wonderfully crisp and entertaining that I've bought all three of her other novels. Highly recommended, especially to anyone whose mother, like mine, got dressed up in her "costume" and gloves to visit Smith & Caughey..
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7580...n_in_Black
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7580...n_in_Black